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1. The most important question for Kavanaugh, to me, is whether he regularly engaged in binge drinking -- to the point of blacking out or passing out -- while in high school

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2. This seems consistent with the picture he painted of himself in high school (Treasurer of the Keg City Club -- 100 kegs or bust) and that of his friend Mark Judge, who wrote a whole book about how he got blackout drunk in high school

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3. Kavanaugh also spoke fondly of binge drinking in a 2014 speech to the Yale Federalist Society, telling an "amusing" story of a friend who got so drunk he fell and smashed a table

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4. If Kavanaugh acknowledges drinking until he passed out or blacked out, how can he credibly deny Ford's story?

His friend Mark Judge should be called to testify about their behavior as well.

It should all be under oath

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A total and humiliating capitation to a president with no interest in the truth.

The news media is supposed to inform the public.

They are now being used to disseminate government propaganda.
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What a joke.

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Any network that airs this live is knowingly participating in a disinformation campaign
Some conflicting info, but @JenniferJJacobs of Bloomberg says the networks will air this live

This show just how deeply the mainstream media misunderstands Trump and his tactics

@JenniferJJacobs This is what happened when Obama gave a primetime address on immigration in 2014
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Kavanaugh repeatedly lied. He signed a letter to his friends about their beach week rental: “FFFFF, Bart"

He was asked several times about the name Bart. He was under oath & lied every time. Here is one example w his own letter next to his perjury
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Kavanaugh was asked at least 4 times about being referred to as "Bart."

From the hearing transcript:

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Bart Kavanaugh's 2 page letter about beach week
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Let's talk about the Putin/Alt-Right/GOP propaganda machine—the REAL Devil's Triangle—as it relates to Brett #Kavanaugh:

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"One of the trickiest things about blackouts is that you don’t necessarily know you’re having one. I wrote a memoir, so centered around the slips of memory caused by heavy drinking that it is actually called 'Blackout'"
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Here is a lonely tweet diving into the issue of Kavanaugh's blackouts by looking at that calendar ...

Who Won, Anyway?

@notclimatebrad makes a great point with this tweet
The calendar and yearbook are referencing Kavanaugh attending an Orioles double header but for some reason ... Kavanaugh doesn't know who won.

A link to the tweet & the science behind blackouts with loss of memory after heavy alcohol consumption

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Kavanaugh is seated at the witness table. Starting a new thread for his testimony. He says he wrote it himself and no one has seen a draft of this statement except for one of his former law clerks.
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